NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 Core 512 vs AMD Radeon 550

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 Core 512 AMD Radeon 550

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 480 Core 512 and 2GB VRAM Radeon 550 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 Core 512 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (134.4GB/s vs 56.00GB/s)

AMD Radeon 550 's Advantages

Boost Clock1183MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 1GB)

Lower TDP (50W vs 375W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 480 Core 512

1.078 TFLOPS

Radeon 550 +12%

1.211 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 480 Core 512

VS

Radeon 550

Graphics Card

Unknown

Release Date

Apr 2017

GeForce 400

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1100 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1183 MHz

700 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

1536MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

64bit

134.4GB/s

Bandwidth

56.00GB/s

Render Config

16

SM Count

-

Compute Units

8

512

Shading Units

512

64

TMUs

32

48

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

768 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

16.86 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

18.93 GPixel/s

33.73 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

37.86 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

1211 GFLOPS

1078 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1211 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

75.71 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GF100

GPU Name

Lexa

GF100-ES-DT1-A2

GPU Variant

Lexa PRO (215-0904018)

Fermi

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

40 nm

Process Size

14 nm

3.1 billion

Transistors

2.2 billion

529 mm²

Die Size

103 mm²

Board Design

375W

TDP

50W

750 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0b 1x DisplayPort 1.4a

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

2.1

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

2.0

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

6.7

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